The European Union in Prophecy by Ellen White
The European Union in Prophecy provides insightful perspectives on the E.U. both as a political project in integration and a transformation of an ancient order. One would discern that the aligned and centralised powers, which firmly resolved on unification, conceived and instituted united kingdoms, united states and united nations, still persevere in their efforts for a more robust and resilient E.U. However, unknown to most, the territorial aggrandisement, economic and military supremacy and global dominance of the E.U. have all been foretold in prophecy, millennia before the reign of the first European monarch. Spiritual forces that engineered the rise of the European thrones, also calculated the suppression of dissidence and incited merciless carnage. Although now paraded as an industrialised paragon of progress and self-made sophistication, this book elucidates on the enigmatic and clandestine alliances, decrees and dogmas that consolidated Eurocentricity that moulded modern civilisation. Indeed, despite rooted religiopolitical tensions and divergences, a peculiar one-minded homogenisation facilitates the unification process. Keywords
The European Union in Prophecy provides insightful perspectives on the E.U. both as a political project in integration and a transformation of an ancient order. One would discern that the aligned and centralised powers, which firmly resolved on unification, conceived and instituted united kingdoms, united states and united nations, still persevere in their efforts for a more robust and resilient E.U. However, unknown to most, the territorial aggrandisement, economic and military supremacy and global dominance of the E.U. have all been foretold in prophecy, millennia before the reign of the first European monarch. Spiritual forces that engineered the rise of the European thrones, also calculated the suppression of dissidence and incited merciless carnage. Although now paraded as an industrialised paragon of progress and self-made sophistication, this book elucidates on the enigmatic and clandestine alliances, decrees and dogmas that consolidated Eurocentricity that moulded modern civilisation. Indeed, despite rooted religiopolitical tensions and divergences, a peculiar one-minded homogenisation facilitates the unification process. Keywords
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>European</strong> <strong>Union</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Prophecy</strong><br />
It was the desire for liberty of conscience that <strong>in</strong>spired the Pilgrims to brave the<br />
perils of the long journey across the sea, to endure the hardships and dangers of the<br />
wilderness, and with God's bless<strong>in</strong>g to lay, on the shores of America, the foundation<br />
of a mighty nation. Yet honest and Godfear<strong>in</strong>g as they were, the Pilgrims did not yet<br />
comprehend the great pr<strong>in</strong>ciple of religious liberty. <strong>The</strong> freedom which they sacrificed<br />
so much to secure for themselves, they were not equally ready to grant to others. "Very<br />
few, even of the foremost th<strong>in</strong>kers and moralists of the seventeenth century, had any<br />
just conception of that grand pr<strong>in</strong>ciple, the outgrowth of the New Testament, which<br />
acknowledges God as the sole judge of human faith."-- Ibid., vol. 5, p. 297.<br />
<strong>The</strong> doctr<strong>in</strong>e that God has committed to the church the right to control the<br />
conscience, and to def<strong>in</strong>e and punish heresy, is one of the most deeply rooted of papal<br />
errors. While the Reformers rejected the creed of Rome, they were not entirely free<br />
from her spirit of <strong>in</strong>tolerance. <strong>The</strong> dense darkness <strong>in</strong> which, through the long ages of<br />
her rule, popery had enveloped all Christendom, had not even yet been wholly<br />
dissipated. Said one of the lead<strong>in</strong>g m<strong>in</strong>isters <strong>in</strong> the colony of Massachusetts Bay: "It<br />
was toleration that made the world antichristian; and the church never took harm <strong>by</strong><br />
the punishment of heretics."-- Ibid., vol. 5, p. 335. <strong>The</strong> regulation was adopted <strong>by</strong> the<br />
colonists that only church members should have a voice <strong>in</strong> the civil government. A<br />
k<strong>in</strong>d of state church was formed, all the people be<strong>in</strong>g required to contribute to the<br />
support of the clergy, and the magistrates be<strong>in</strong>g authorized to suppress heresy. Thus<br />
the secular power was <strong>in</strong> the hands of the church. It was not long before these<br />
measures led to the <strong>in</strong>evitable result --persecution.<br />
Eleven years after the plant<strong>in</strong>g of the first colony, Roger Williams came to the<br />
New World. Like the early Pilgrims he came to enjoy religious freedom; but, unlike<br />
them, he saw --what so few <strong>in</strong> his time had yet seen--that this freedom was the<br />
<strong>in</strong>alienable right of all, whatever might be their creed. He was an earnest seeker for<br />
truth, with Rob<strong>in</strong>son hold<strong>in</strong>g it impossible that all the light from God's word had yet<br />
been received. Williams "was the first person <strong>in</strong> modern Christendom to establish civil<br />
government on the doctr<strong>in</strong>e of the liberty of conscience, the equality of op<strong>in</strong>ions before<br />
the law."--Bancroft, pt. 1, ch. 15, par. 16. He declared it to be the duty of the<br />
magistrate to restra<strong>in</strong> crime, but never to control the conscience. "<strong>The</strong> public or the<br />
magistrates may decide," he said, "what is due from man to man; but when they<br />
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